I'm a voracious local bookmarker. I've got piles upon piles of meticulously constructed bookmarks and bookmark folders, and, to be honest, it's all quite perfect. But I'm afraid... very afraid! What happens if something goes wrong with Firefox or my hard drive and I lose all of my bookmarks? What can I do to ensure that my newest and oldest bookmarks will always be there for me, even in the event of a hard drive failure?

Since you're using Firefox, the first thing you should do is go and download Lifehacker favorite, the Foxmarks Firefox extension. You'll need to set up an account with Foxmarks to get started, but once you do, Foxmarks will automatically back up all of your bookmarks online - meaning that no matter what happens to your hard drive, you've got an offsite copy all ready to go.

Foxmarks is primarily intended as a bookmark synchronizer, so as an added bonus, you can set it up on any other computer, anywhere in the world, and your very same bookmarks will be available there. And since it backs up your bookmarks regularly and incrementally, all of your browsers will always be in sync with the same bookmarks (this is especially useful if you are an advanced user of keyword bookmarks, which I suspect you are, Benny!).

Even if you can't or don't want to set up another browser with Foxmarks, you can still access your backed up bookmarks at any time by logging into your Foxmarks account. Hope that helps!